Michael, list, Briefly.
In order to understand what an aesthetic experience might be, I am trying to understand where it is, and when does it occur. It as been said that aesthetic involves the senses (sensorial receptors); fine. But if you believe, as I do, that sensing is non-epistemic, that sensing is not a conscious mental state, that there is no qualitative ressemblance, just structural isomorphism, than you have to ask yourself the question I put forward. Perceiving is a different process; it comes after sensing, in superior cortices and nuclei. It doesn't make much sense to me to say that an aesthetic experience is the experiencing of the senses. However, if it is the experiencing of what the senses carry to the brain (experiencing something related to the senses), then I suggest it occurs during the process of perceiving. But then, if that is the case, we might have a problem with the association of the 2 words: aesthetic + experience, since it is not an aesthetic experience per se. We do not perceive all what we are sensing, so there is a deficit. Perceiving is selecting. How do we select what our senses carry? Just on the basis of the difference between pain and pleasure? What is the role of memory? Sensing is an act, it has biological effect on us; no matter what happens with the process of perceiving it changes us. After (or should I say during?) the selective process, are we always conscious of what we perceive? I donbt think so. I believe we spend most of our life in a non-conscious perceiving state. And there you go with the debate about non-conscious (unnoticed) aesthetic experience. What a mess, right ? Unless we just say, b we are experiencing xb . Based on the above, I have no doubt an experience is always subjective. Luc www.lucdelannoy.com > > > Where is the aesthetic experience if sensing is > non-epistemic? > > I'm not sure what you mean. Can you explain?
